Cort Conley papers relating to Idaho Loners, 1875-1993.

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Cort Conley papers relating to Idaho Loners, 1875-1993.

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Research notes (including clippings) and drafts for Conley's book, Idaho Loners: Hermits, Solitaries, and Individualists (1994). Individuals profiled are Richard Leigh (Beaver Dick), William "Doc" Hisom, David Lewis, Clydeus Dunbar, Earl Parrott, William Moreland, Sylvan Hart, Lydia Coyle, Richard Zimmerman, Helena Schmidt, Claude Dallas, and James J. Angleton.

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Boise State University, Albertsons Library

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Boise State University, Albertsons Library

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Leigh, Richard, -1899

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Leigh was born in England in 1831 and emigrated to the United States while in his teens. After briefly participating in the Mexican-American war in 1848, he moved to the Teton Valley of Idaho and Wyoming. Leigh worked as a scout for several Wyoming territorial surveying parties in the 1870s and as a trapper, gaining the nickname "Beaver Dick." His first wife, Jenny, was an Eastern Shoshone Indian, who died with the rest of Leigh's family in a smallpox epidemic in 1876. Leigh later married Susan ...

Angleton, James, 1917-1987

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Coyle, Lydia.

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Schmidt, Helena.

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Dunbar, Clydeus.

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Parrott, Earl K., 1869-1945.

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Zimmerman, Richard, 1914-

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Dallas, Claude

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Hisom, Doc, 1850-1944

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Moreland, William M.

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Conley, Cort, 1944-

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Cort Conley was born in Berkeley, California, in 1944. He earned a bachelor's degree and law degree from the University of California before moving to Idaho in 1972. He has worked as a river guide as well as a writer. Most of his books have been issued under his own imprint, Backeddy Books. He has homes in Boise and Cambridge, Idaho. From the guide to the Cort Conley Collection On Idaho Loners, 1875-1993, (Boise State University Library) Author, of Idaho. From th...

Lewis, Dave, 1844-1936.

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Hart, Sylvan, 1906-1980

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Sylvan Ambrose Hart (1906-1980), known as Buckskin Bill, lived for many years in isolation on the Salmon River, Idaho. From the description of Papers, 1969-1973. (Idaho State Historical Society Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 42928988 ...